Bungie to leave Microsoft?

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Desroko said:

Engelos said:
No way, Ms would never let their top name make games for their competitors.

If push comes to shove they would flat out buy them out.

Bungie is already a wholly-owned subsidiary of MS.

There are ways for those to be spun off, but I'm racking my brain trying to find a scenario that MS would actually agree to.

Well with MS's current plan of developing 360 exclusives using independant studios  under contract it makes some small sense (Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey from Mistwalker).

 

Microsoft has become notorious at subcontracting things out, hell a ton of current MS employees in Redmond are temps under contract, that way MS doesn't  have to worry about benefits and overtime pay. For videogames it basically means that if a project goes overbudget MS isn't footing the extra cash, if the game takes to long to develop MS can have financial penalties in the contract and if a game doesn't sell well MS is only out $20 million or so not that plus whatever has been put into the studios followup project.

 

That said this article looks like your standard near worthless internet rumor.